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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:21 pm
Post subject: Mark Wahlberg helps juvenile offenders
Mark Wahlberg helps juvenile offenders
By John Morgan, Spotlight Health, with medical adviser Stephen A. Shoop, M.D.
Mark Wahlberg can tell you in detail about the hardships juvenile offenders suffer in adult prison many of which have serious health consequences. But the 32 year-old actor's knowledge wasn't gained from preparing for a new film role.
Wahlberg was prosecuted as an adult and incarcerated when he was 16 years old.
"My incarceration had a huge effect on me and it still does from my dreams to my every day life and the decisions I make," says Wahlberg. "It affects everything the people I interact with as well as the people I've had to disassociate my self from."
Wahlberg was able to get out of trouble and find blockbuster success in Hollywood starring in The Italian Job, Three Kings and Planet of the Apes.
Now as executive producer and narrator of Juvies, a documentary about America's failed juvenile justice system, Wahlberg is passionate about exposing the cruel hardships kids face in adult prisons. The national tour of the film kicks off in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 16, at the Aratani/Japan America Theatre.
"Don't get me wrong I'm not making excuses because there are kids who are extremely dangerous, no question," Wahlberg says. "But the system is simply not taking the time to deal with each individual case. For most of these kids, there is still the possibility of helping them before it's too late. I know. I am an example of that possibility."
Directed by Leslie Neale, the film reveals that the majority of kids who go into the juvenile system don't go on to commit crimes after they're 18. Yet while juvenile crime has dropped 41% in recent years, media coverage of youth crime has increased.
This skewed public perception of exploding youth crime led to all 50 states making it easier to prosecute juvenile offenders as adults. At the same time, the best deterrents for juvenile crime good schools and youth programs had their budgets cut. Today, more than 200,000 kids are prosecuted every year as adults.
Wahlberg says the health consequences to youth offenders are both tragic and cruel.
"Kids who are jailed with adults get sexually assaulted or beaten five times more than kids in juvenile facilities," Wahlberg states. "They're eight time more likely to commit suicide."
Many mental health experts are appalled by kids doing time in adult prisons.
No brainer
"It's insane," say psychotherapist John Schureman, who specializes in disruptive disorders. "To punish kids for an impulse problem when their brains their frontal lobes aren't even fully matured makes no sense. It is totally irrational."
And new scientific information from brain scans, genetics and molecular neurology seem to support this opinion.
Impulse problems arise from impairments of the frontal lobes or the region of the brain known as the executive control center. The frontal lobes are responsible for planning, organizing, inhibiting inappropriate behaviors, and controlling affect and emotion.
"This region of the brain continues to develop quite late in life into the late teens and early 20s and perhaps even beyond," explains Elizabeth Sowell, an assistant professor of neurology at UCLA. "We have historically looked at normal adolescent behavior as being erratic. We now think that the late developing frontal lobe may be related to this normal sort of erratic behavior."
According to experts, if teenagers have frontal lobe impairments, they are often unable to remember when they were punished and cannot modify their behavior accordingly.
"Adolescents in general have this problem," Schureman says. "The kids in the juvenile and adult prison systems have it in spades."
Schureman says almost all of the kids shown in the film have defects in impulse control either because of a learning disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or bipolar disorder. In fact, research indicates up to 80% of prison populations suffer from one or more of these three disorders.
"In terms of maturity, these kids are 30% behind that means an 18 year-old is developmentally probably only 12," Schureman states. "What we're doing is taking impaired kids in their most crucial years of development when they could really benefit from help and we are putting them through a lengthy boot camp for crime and anti-social behavior."
Schureman explains that adolescents with immature frontal lobe development who are placed into adult prisons are traumatized even more.
"They will end up with post-traumatic stress disorder which will only further incapacitate their frontal lobe development that's what PTSD does," Schureman says. "The PTSD from sexual abuse and assaults makes the problem worse. That's why there is such a high recidivism rate."
While approximately 70% of criminal offenders return to prison within five years, there is new hope for effective intervention and rehabilitation.
A study of prisoners in Pennsylvania showed that with proper medication for ADHD and bipolar disorder the recidivism rate dropped dramatically. If psycho-social intervention is combined with medication, the success rate increases up to 60%.
But too few adult prisons provide counseling and medications. Even inmate education programs have been cut, despite research that indicates the most successful strategy to prevent recidivism is literacy programs.
Literacy training not only provides inmates with better life skills, but the training itself has a positive effect on helping develop the frontal lobes.
"It's the concept that you use it or lose it," Schureman says. "If these kids are being trained how to discipline their minds, how to read and write and how to self-regulate their behavior instead of how to fend for their very survival then we can have real impact."
Another effective rehabilitation strategy is called mentorship scaffolding.
"A strong external support system is exactly what these juvenile offenders need," Schureman offers. "While they of course have to be placed in a confined setting, these kids need more guardians, not guards. There is still a good chance they can be helped."
Wahlberg credits a local priest and his probation officers with helping him turn things around.
"Father Flavin was a huge influence in my life," Wahlberg states. "He was always trying to sway me to go in the right direction. In Dorchester, it was all right there all the directions."
But despite the best of intentions, Wahlberg says he still got arrested four or five more times but did not get sent back to jail because his probation officers "had faith in me."
The Boogie Nights star is concerned that kids today aren't getting the crucial second chances that enabled him to turn his life completely around.
"If I were judged on what I did before I was 16 and convicted the way the kids are in the film, I'd be doing 150 years," Wahlberg says.
The actor hopes the film begins a national dialogue that eventually reverses the current trend of locking up youth offenders with adult inmates.
"I plan on doing everything I can to make sure as many people as possible see this film," he says. "Maybe people will see where I came from and see this film and realize these kids can actually still be helped because rehabilitation is in everyone's best interests."
In the meantime, Wahlberg plans to continue the work of his youth foundation.
"I am in a position where I can do a lot of good for kids like myself who growing up could easily go one way or the other," Wahlberg says. "If I can inspire some kids and help them to go the right way, hopefully that will help me make up for all the mistakes I made."
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Mark Wahlberg Takes Crusade for Kids Personally
"Juvies" is the powerful new documentary that shows kids on trial as adults and being put away, some of them for life. It's the story of a criminal justice system that angers many, including the films celebrity narrator Mark Wahlberg.
Keeping kids out of adult prison is important to Mark Wahlberg, mainly because he's done the crime and he's done some time. "I spent a little time in jail myself," Wahlberg reveals. "I was tried as an adult when I was a juvenile."
Tried and convicted of assault, Wahlberg only did 45 days. But kids today are often sentenced to that many years and Wahlberg thinks its a crime. "It just doesn't give anybody any hope for the future," he insists.
Fortunately for Wahlberg, he got a second chance, making music, movies and what he says is the best thing to ever happen to him -- a new baby daughter, now six months old. "Shes phenomenal, shes just great," Wahlberg says.
The star of films like "Boogie Nights," "Planet of the Apes" and "The Italian Job," says the addition to his family has brought up some new issues. "There are a couple of films I've made that I'm not going to want my little girl to ever see."
Wahlberg also reveals to "Extra," that there's a sequel to "The Italian Job" in the works. "Theyre writing it now, so well see," he says. He also reveals that he will again costar with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron.
In the meantime, Wahlberg is all revved up about "Juvies," hoping to help troubled kids get a second chance. For more on Mark Wahlberg and "Juvies," dont miss Wednesdays edition of "Extra."
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It's so good to see Mark so passionate about something that is so important.
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who can help me with information about clemency for my friend she arrested when she was 15 years and waived as an adult, 30 years to life. she is now in a state prison in new jersey.she did already 15 years and want to ask clemency , but she need support or more information, it's difficult for me to help her i live in the netherlands, her info is Brenda Wiley-# 14380
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hello i need help for my friend Brenda Wiley who is in prison, she was 15 years old and waived as an adult..now she go for clemency. help us!!
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Do you even know Brenda? I went to school with her for 13 years. She was not incarcerated at 15 she was 17. She brutally beat her mother and younger brother 50+ times each with an aluminum baseball bat. after that she proceeded to stab her mother more than 70 times and her brother more than 60 times until they both perished. I agree that youths should be treated differently but not a 17 year old who commits a crime such as this.
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VICTORIA - The remote alpine birthplace of three majestic, salmon-rich rivers has been saved from potentially harmful oil-and-gas development in a remote area of northwestern British Columbia.
The B.C. government announced a deal Tuesday with Shell Canada Ltd., and the Tahltan Central Council that will see Shell withdraw its plans to explore and drill for coalbed methane gas in a 4,000-square-kilometre region known as the Klappan at the confluence of the Stikine, Nass and Skeena rivers.
In 2005, some members of the Tahltan were arrested during protests in the area, which the First Nation calls the Sacred Headwaters.
Shell drilled three exploration wells starting in 2004, but in 2008, agreed to an amendment of its petroleum and natural-gas tenure, which suspended further exploration activities in the area for a maximum of four years.
The suspended exploration period was set to expire Tuesday, but the government made it permanent with its announcement.
The Klappan area is located about 400 kilometres north of Smithers and includes few inhabited communities other than Telegraph Creek and Dease Lake.
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Known for their abundant salmon runs and wilderness grizzly, wolf, caribou and moose, the three rivers and their territory offer spiritual, cultural and wilderness significance to the Tahltan and Iskut people of the area.
"Overjoyed and deeply moved. I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am and how honoured I am on behalf of the Tahltan Nation," Annita McPhee, president of the Tahltan Central Council, said in an interview from Terrace, B.C.
"It's a huge honour for our nation to have this beautiful area protected."
She said the Klappan is one of the most sacred and important areas for her people and she acknowledged Shell for its decision to give up its development plans.
"In 2005, we were so afraid of what was going to happen to this area," said McPhee.
But she said Tahltan elders committed themselves to protecting the area from development, which could have resulted in the drilling of up to 4,000 exploration wells, the building of 3,000 kilometres of roads and the potential pollution of the rivers.
The Tahltan said they were prepared to risk arrest as they enlisted a national and international campaign that included conservation and environmental groups.
"I can't even imagine what would have happened in that area, and I want to applaud Shell for giving up their tenure in that area, and us not having to worry about that in the future," said McPhee.
In addition to giving up its petroleum tenures, Shell plans to build a new water recycling project to support its gas developments in northeastern B.C., which includes $20 million in royalty credits from the provincial government.
Energy and Mines Minister Rich Coleman said the agreement involved joint negotiations between the province, Tahltan and Shell.
He said energy companies usually prefer to hold their tenures for years to take advantage of future market changes, but Shell decided it was to their advantage to turn them back to the province.
"In this particular case, they saw it as a real benefit to building relationships with First Nations in the northwest and the northeast where they want to do a lot of activity and have relationships," said Coleman.
Shell spokesman David Williams said the company now plans to move to northeastern B.C. where the area is more accessible to exploration and the infrastructure is already in place.
"We're very pleased to have found common ground with the Tahltan," he said.
Shell views its priorities now in northeastern B.C. where oil and gas operations have been ongoing for 60 years, Williams said.
ForestEthics spokeswoman Karen Tam Wu said worldwide and local pressure by First Nations and environmental groups prompted Shell to take its plans elsewhere.
"The solution that they've come to is quite a creative one," she said. "It creates a win for the company and a win for the government and it gets the company out of the headwaters."
Opposition New Democrat Doug Donaldson, whose Stikine riding includes the Klappan area, called the agreement a "tremendous victory for people in the northwest, people in the north and the province in general."
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. An earlier version said protests were against natural gas.
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The spotted owl has long served as a flagship species for environmentalists across the nation, and the Mexican spotted owl is the Southwest's most famous old-growth resident. Unfortunately, by the late 1980s — at the height of logging operations in the national forests — biologists estimated that only 2,000 of the birds remained in the world. The species' numbers are still declining as it continues to lose habitat to logging, development, mining, and wildfire.
Ever since the owl was listed as threatened in 1993 — more than three years after the Center petitioned for the species — logging interests have constantly sought to undermine its protection. Two years after we won a suit designating critical habitat for the owl in 1995, a countersuit by timber proponents used a legal technicality to strip the bird of protected forest living space. We filed suit again in 1999, only to have the Service designate habitat in 2001 that left out the areas most important for the bird's recovery. Finally, after another Center lawsuit and despite resistance from the Department of the Interior, the owl's critical habitat was expanded to more than 8 million acres. Thanks to Center intervention in a livestock-industry challenge of that decision, the designation still stands today.
In addition to our long fight for critical habitat, we sued the Forest Service in 1995 for failing to consult on the effects of 11 regional forest plans on the owl. In 1996, the agency revised all 11 plans to incorporate the Mexican Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, but grandfathered in all ongoing logging and grazing, forcing us to sue once again. The resulting legal battles halted all logging in the Southwest for 16 months before forcing the Forest Service to implement the federal recovery plan. Unfortunately, in late 2012, the Service released a final revised "recovery plan" for Mexican spotted owls that actually weakened protections for the bird laid out in its original 1995 recovery plan.
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Senators and IG promise further probes.
"It breaks my heart," said Steven T. Miller, until recently the acting internal revenue commissioner, addressing a skeptical Senate panel on Tuesday to explain how the next chief of the tax service will have to "put in place safeguards so that the American people can regain their trust that the IRS is nonpartisan."
But neither he nor Douglas Shulman, the most recent fully tenured commissioner who left the office in November, agreed with lawmakers' charges that that an office within the agency's tax exempt organizations division was motivated by political bias in its apparent mishandling of applications for tax-free status and its intrusive demands over the past three years from "tea party" and other activist groups.
"This happened on my watch, and I deeply regret it," Shulman told the Senate Finance Committee in his first public statement since the scandal broke 10 days ago. "It put a blemish on the agency." But the Internal Revenue Service during this period faced "a number of challenges," Shulman said, citing the 2009 economic stimulus checks to taxpayers, an offshore tax crackdown and modernization of the IRS's technology systems "while still carrying out its core mission of getting returns processed and refunds sent out while educating the public," he said.
When Shulman read the inspector general's recent report last week on documenting severe mismanagement at a Cincinnati office tasked with centralizing determinations on tax-exempt applications, he was "dismayed and saddened by the conclusions that the service was not acting as should have, in a nonpolitical, nonpartisan way, which it does the majority of the time," he said. "The effect is bad for the agency and the American taxpayer."
Both Shulman and Miller denied they knew details about the political labels being used by the Cincinnati-based employees and denied they spoke of the matter to higher-ups in Treasury or the White House. "At the time, and as of now," Shulman said, "I believe I took the proper steps because the matter was being looked at by the inspector general."
But committee Republicans as well as Democrats made clear that they expect more answers on the individuals who carried out the operation and the awareness of the problem at higher levels, while also promising to consider legislation to clarify for the IRS the extent to which nonprofit organizations can participate in politics while claiming tax-free status and donor privacy.
In opening the hearing, Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., quoted statesman Adlai Stephenson on how governing depends on "good judgment," a quote that is "etched at IRS headquarters," he said.
"The Cincinnati employees abused this trust," he said. They created what the inspector general called "a bureaucratic mess, were ignorant about tax laws, defiant of their supervisors and blind to the appearance of impropriety," said Baucus, promising a bipartisan investigation that includes detailed written questions and demands for documents from IRS.
After demanding to know who was responsible for the mismanagement, he asked Shulman, "Why wasn't someone fired in 2011? It sounds like someone was not doing his job."
Ranking Minority Member Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, said that contrary to comments by some in the Obama administration, "these hearings are not a sideshow to distract from the president's agenda. The American people expect the IRS to exercise its authority in a neutral, nonpartisan way." Calling the IRS "one of the most powerful agencies in our government," Hatch said he was particularly disturbed that Miller and Shulman had responded to lawmakers' earlier written queries about reports of intrusive questions and delays in tax-exempt applications by denying such activity was going on. "Why didn't you correct the record" once you found out in 2012? he asked, wagging a finger. "That's a lie of omission."
Miller replied, "I did not lie, sir, I answered the questions truthfully. I didn't agree that there was a political motivation, which was borne out by the inspector general's report." Miller called the Cincinnati employees' actions "foolish mistakes made in trying to be more efficient." He said the agency is "moving forward and has learned its lesson. Management will take appropriate action to hold accountable those responsible," he said. When he learned of the problem, he added, he sent a team to investigate, stopped the intrusive letters from going out and provided special training workshops and oral counseling to the staff.
When Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., asked Shulman why it took two years for IRS to fix the problem, Shulman replied, "I wasn't there, and it just came to light so I haven't been able to ask questions. But when someone spotted the problem, it should have been run up the chain."
J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration who conducted the audit, called the episode "a breakdown in management," describing his work as an audit of programs, which differs from an investigation that probes individual conduct. "Suffice it to say this matter is not over," he said. "We will review and it may ultimately lead to an investigation," he said, adding that any wrongful release of taxpayer information could be a criminal violation.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa., sought and gained an apology from Miller for working with Lois Lerner, chief of the IRS Exempt Organization Division, in planting a question with an audience member at an American Bar Association panel this month, which got the scandal rolling. "We were trying to start the story, with the public and Congress at the same time. It was a bad idea and it didn't work out," Miller said.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., decried what he called "lies, for which no one takes responsibility. The IRS has been operating in a higher politicized environment for three years," he said. Tracing the chain of command by name up from the IRS to Treasury to the White House counsel's office, he said, "it must have been directed from Washington."
In response to Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Miller attributed some of the problem to a $1 billion cut from the IRS budget in recent years, noting that the exempt organization division was faced with 70,000 applications after training had been "cut drastically." Only in recent years, Miller said, has the flow of political money been called into question at the IRS, "but we were not crisp in responding."
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., took a "different tack, focusing on how we got into this mess." He noted that the statute requires tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organizations to perform "exclusively" social welfare activity while the Treasury regulation from 1958 altered that to mean "primarily." "Where is the IRS in enforcing this rule in the first place?" he asked. "The government may have been running amok but it also was also impotent," he said. He and Baucus promised efforts to clarify and close the loophole."


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School Bus Company to Implement Nationwide Anti-Idling Program and Pay Penalties for Clean Air Act Violations - Public Health Benefits as Nation Recognizes School Bus Safety Week
Release Date: 10/21/2009
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(Boston, Mass. – October 21, 2009) – As part of a settlement for clean air violations, school bus operator First Student will commit to reduce idling from its nationwide fleet of 50,000 school buses.
The anti-idling measures are the result of an EPA enforcement action to address illegal idling at Connecticut and Rhode Island school bus lots. This nationwide effort will reduce school children's exposure to diesel pollution and help clean the nation's air. First Student, Inc. will also pay a fine of $128,000 and perform environmental projects valued at over $1 million.
"Pollution from diesel vehicles is a serious problem across the country. Children, especially those suffering from asthma or other respiratory ailments, are particularly vulnerable to diesel exhaust," said Ira W. Leighton, acting regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "October is Children's Health Month, so it is especially timely that our work will result in First Student's aggressive measures to limit school bus idling and help protect the health of school children nationwide."
First Student is one of the largest school bus companies in North America, transporting four million students in 40 states across the country. In 2008, an EPA inspector observed buses idling for lengthy periods of time at First Student school bus lots in both Conn. and R.I. Some buses were observed idling for up to two and a half hours prior to departing the lot to pick up school children.
"This settlement will help reduce excessive idling and advance key components of Connecticut's Clean Diesel Plan," said Amey Marrella, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. "Strong enforcement of anti-idling regulations, which is a focus of this settlement, reduces diesel emissions and is a DEP priority. Reduced idling improves public health, especially among sensitive groups like school-aged children and senior citizens, and contributes to the state's climate change goals."
Under the settlement, First Student will implement a national Training and Management Program to prevent excessive idling from its entire fleet of 50,000 school buses. Through this program, First Student will train its drivers to comply with state and local anti-idling regulations and to avoid excessive idling. First Student will require supervisors to monitor idling in school bus lots, post anti-idling signs in areas where drivers congregate, and notify the school districts it serves of its anti-idling policy.
"This settlement will help reduce our children's exposure to diesel pollutants by training school bus drivers to comply with anti-idling regulations that are intended to protect health and the environment and to conserve fuel," said W. Michael Sullivan, PhD., Director of the RI Department of Environmental Management. "Diesel exhaust from idling buses accumulates in and around school yards and poses health risks to children and teachers. Limiting the amount of idling time and retrofitting school buses to reduce the harmful effects of diesel pollution will help not only the children who ride them, but also their bus drivers, teachers, families, and communities, all of whom will benefit from cleaner air and reduced exposure to diesel exhaust."
In addition, First Student will outfit approximately 150 school buses in New England with EPA-verified crankcase filter and diesel oxidation catalyst systems. First Student also will install a GPS idling tracking system on approximately 400 buses. The crankcase filter and oxidation catalyst systems will reduce harmful particulate matter emissions from the engine between 20 and 30 percent and help reduce children's exposure to this pollution. The GPS idling tracking system will help First Student management identify and address buses that idle excessively.
Idling diesel engines emit pollutants which can cause or aggravate a variety of health problems including asthma and other respiratory diseases, and the fine particles in diesel exhaust are a likely human carcinogen. Diesel exhaust not only contributes to area-wide air quality problems, but more direct exposure can cause lightheadedness, nausea, sore throat, coughing, and other symptoms. Drivers, school children riding on the buses, facility workers, neighbors and bystanders are all vulnerable.
Both Connecticut and Rhode Island have anti-idling regulations that are included in their "state implementation plans" designed to meet national air quality standards. Regulations in the state implementation plan are enforceable by the state and by EPA. The anti-idling regulation in Connecticut limits idling time to three minutes. In Rhode Island, the limit is five minutes.
Idling school buses consume about one-half gallon of fuel per hour. By reducing the idling time of each bus in its fleet by one hour per day, First Student would reduce its fuel use by 4.5 million gallons per year and avoid emitting roughly 100 million pounds of carbon dioxide per year. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.
EPA has worked aggressively with the six New England states to implement and enforce anti-idling programs. EPA's inspections of transportation facilities are part of a region-wide effort to curb diesel air emissions. EPA's New England office has previously brought and resolved 11 separate enforcement actions for penalties against nine different companies, for violations of state anti-idling regulations.
The following states have anti-idling regulations:
California; Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Hawaii; Maine; Massachusetts; Maryland; Minnesota; Nevada; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; Utah; Vermont; Virginia; West Virginia;
The following localities have anti-idling regulations:
Maricopa County, Arizona; Denver and Aspen, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; several counties in Illinois; several counties in Minnesota; several counties in Missouri; Chattanooga, Tennessee; several counties in Texas; and the District of Columbia;
More information:
Diesel exhaust and anti-idling guidelines (www.epa.gov/ne/eco/diesel)
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Quote of the Day - A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.
USEPA's Approval of California Air Quality Plan Overturned Due To Use Of Six-year, Outdated Data
The United States Environmental Protection Agency just lost a battle that it has been fighting with the Sierra Club since 2004. As you know, the USEPA sets the standards for air quality around the country. Since the air pollution is particularly bad in California, and especially in the San Joaquin Valley, the Sierra Club filed a challenge to the USEPA's approval of certain air quality standards for the Valley in 2010.
While the Sierra Club argued that the approval had a number of problems - including the fact that the standards were impossible to comply with - the Ninth Circuit relied on just one of those problems to overturn the USEPA's approval.
The Court said that the USEPA could not rely on data from 2004 in 2010 when approving the standards in California's State Implementation Plan. That's right - a six-year gap in data.
Six years outdated, and yet the USEPA still approved the 2004 SIP in 2010. Read that last sentence again. The USEPA was six years behind in reviewing data supplied to it, and refused to consider more current data in reaching its decision.
The USEPA failed to explain why it would not consider the new data, and the Ninth Circuit consequently held that refusal as "arbitrary and capricious," and ordered the USEPA to do it over again, and this time, consider new, relevant data.
I've had cases against the USEPA before, and this tactic is quite common. They don't do their homework, and when challenged about it, retort back that they have the statutory/regulatory right to rely on old, out-of-date data. Finally, thanks to the Sierra Club, the USEPA has been called on its tactics and hopefully, we'll see the last of this bureaucratic nonsense.


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Specific exercises for each of the alignment problems discussed in this chapter are readily available elsewhere. However, I have found that information on two areas seems to be limited or erroneously covered in popular sources. The first area is the lengthening of the iliopsoas, and the second is toe touching.
The stretching of the iliopsoas is probably the most neglected area of possible difficulty. Few people have ever heard of this muscle, although it contributes to countless backaches every year.
The iliopsoas is attached to the inside of the vertebral column in the region of the lower back (lumbar area), passes over the front of the bony pelvis, and then runs downward and attaches to the inside of the upper leg bone (femur). Therefore, the iliopsoas is somewhat like the tight strings of a cello (figure 5.7). When this muscle shortens, it pulls the small of the back forward and down, leading to a sway in the back and increasing the pressure on the vertebral column. (Because the vertebral column is such an important part of the body, a medical evaluation should be completed before a person performs exercise that involves this area.)
Here are three exercises that can be used to help keep the iliopsoas muscles lengthened:
Toe touching has long been a standard exercise for maintaining the length of the muscles in the back of the upper leg (hamstrings). Two recommendations have been made for this exercise: (1) Do not include a bounce (you do not want to evoke the stretch reflex or damage tissues). The toe touch should be done slowly and held at the point of full stretch. (2) Do not let the knees hyperextend when toe touching, because this position may increase the potential hazard to the structures of the knee. To prevent hyperextension and excessive pressure within the knee joint that can occur in the standing position, exercisers have been encouraged to do their toe touches from a straight-leg, sitting position or while lying on the back. When lying on the back, the person pulls one leg toward the ceiling while the other leg remains flat on the floor. All stretching should be done slowly and should be held for several seconds.
Remember that your body plays an important role in your involvement in life. Treat it well—in addition to exercise, make activities such as Skates and Rag or Rug Hockey (see chapter 10) a lifetime sport!
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Companies worldwide now acknowledged the need for Board of Director engagement and oversight with respect to company ethics issues and compliance programs. The Conference Board's first study on this subject – Ethics Programs – the Role of the Board (2004), sponsored by Microsoft, established that many companies have taken steps to formally involve their boards in their ethics programs. Since the release of that report the world economic crisis has given rise to a need to revisit these issues and raised additional questions about the effectiveness of director engagement in ethics issues. Join us for a review of the just released Deloitte sponsored project Business Ethics: The Board of Directors' Role.
We will focus on the following areas:
- What are the organizational issues in board oversight of ethics programs (full board/committee) monitoring?
- How and in what way are directors involved in the ethics issues that the company confronts?
- With which company officer(s) does the board/committee have contact?
- Does the board receive ethics training? If so what activities are included in such training?
- What types of possible violations/ethical questions has the board or relevant committee(s) actually addressed?
- What is done to assure ethical conduct of board members?
Who Should Attend: Directors, Senior Managers who report to the Board in Ethics related topics (e.g., Legal, Ethics and Compliance, Human Resources, Finance, Audit)
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Ronald E. Berenbeim is a senior fellow at The Conference Board. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a project director for a World Bank study of private sector anticorruption practices in East Asia and co-authored, with Jean-François Arvis, Fighting Corruption in East Asia: Solutions from ...Full Bio


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… because absolutely everything has to be regulated, doesn't it?
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OK, look at page 8 as to whom they're appointing the Chair. Now, for a start, you can't appoint someone a Chair – it's an inanimate object you sit on – but let's not dwell on that.
It's Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood. Wiki:
In 2011, Brown gave a concurring judgment in R v Gnango[4] in which he stated that "[t]he general public would be astonished and appalled if in those circumstances the law attached liability for the death only to the gunman who actually fired the fatal shot."[5] The decision of the Supreme Court and Brown's judgment in particular were criticised by former Lord Justice of Appeal the Rt Hon. Sir Richard Buxton QC and Dr Jonathan Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Laws at University College London, for tenuous reasoning in an attempt to mollify public opinion.


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